Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

These crucial healthcare providers can be found in almost every healthcare setting, including, but not limited to: Hospitals Private Practices Urgent Cares Higher Education Corporate Clinics Telehealth Services Insurance Companies Correctional Facilities Indian Health Service (IHS) Facilities Why is the physician shortage growing?

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Private Practice Healthcare Internal Medicine Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Are clinicians adequately trained and educated about signs and symptoms of that right balance of knowing when to change the whole medication regimen? And Nadine, you’re cheering.

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And I’m using these personal sound amplification products, these PSAPs for young adults who are in their mid twenties, transitioning off of their parents’ insurance, or they’re going to college and they no longer qualify for Medicaid as a child, and they don’t have hearing aids anymore.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. So we have a whole suite of education available.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. As well as, there are significant issues across the workforce when thinking about education and training, for example, that need to be addressed. Jasmine: Technology. Tell me about that. So it’s give and take.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Katie: The waving of the education requirement is for physicians, nurse practitioner and PAs, but in some states, nurse practitioners require their physician to be wavered if they or live in a reduced or restricted scope of practice. And you don’t have to be limited by these arbitrary policies anymore.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

If we can get on a path that is a Federal path, where it’s legal, I also can see a world where Medicaid pays for this, where Medicare pays for this, where insurance companies pay for this, in a way that makes it viable for many more people, is my hope. Eric: I’ve got another question.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Because when you’re on a SNF stay, hospice is also a part A.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. And especially that requires a lot of education. Prior-auth forms? You know what I mean?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I think a lot of people will think of like 16 or 24 milligrams sublingually just because that is what is insurance will pay for for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Janet 46:54 There’s also just to add some additional data, like there is no limit to buprenorphine effectiveness. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I can name probably 10 organizations across the United States where you can get education on being an end-of-life doula and they’re all slightly different. Jane: You are only a certified end-of-life doula by the organization that trains you. There is no licensing or overarching body that oversees this at the current time.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now. If we could get insurance approval all the time, I would only use pregabalin, because you know it’s being linearly absorbed. Janet: You have to do an education beforehand.

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Management IT Patients Family 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. The post Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. You go back home. Things like that.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. So let’s use the one that I prefer to do, because I know this drug, that’s not how insurance companies work. Alex 43:18 Okay, educate us. And then I subsequently entail, yeah, it was interesting. It’s not that simple.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?” .” And then another few months, and then another few months. And it went on for a while. And they would say, “Why me?

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115